Flavorful nacho cheese sauce, so tasty you would never guess it was healthy. Creamy butternut purée combined with cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes and jalapeño. We do not do processed cheese at our house, but at times I miss the creamy texture of velveeta cheese. Most cheese sauces have a cream/roux base and are too heavy…
Category: Vegetables
Zesty Lemon Pepper Shrimp and Cauliflower Salad
Riced and roasted cauliflower, cucumbers, fresh tomatoes, finely diced red onions, and lemon zest. Tossed together with chicken broth, and topped lemon pepper grilled shrimp and a spoonfull of whole Greek yogurt. Want a summer salad that is bursting with color and flavor? Here it is! I ran across a pair of beautifully vibrant purple…
Sweet Curried Carrots
Rainbow carrots over a bed of halved brussels sprouts. Basted with a sweet turmeric and curry vegetable broth. lightly roasted in the oven and served with a curried yogurt dressing. These rainbow carrots are beautiful! So full of color, you almost don’t want to eat them. But they look so tasty it’s hard not to….
Cold Cucumber Soup
Refreshing English cucumbers puréed and blended with whole Greek yogurt and dill. Topped with a parsley infused avocado oil drizzle. The secret to bold flavor, dill pickle juice! Seriously, don’t knock it until you try it! Yes, lemon is a great additive for refreshing flavor, but pickle juice has so much more to offer. Want…
Coconut Curried Butternut Squash Soup
Creamy and delicious squash soup! The curry adds a much needed kick. This recipe can also be made with rosemary and heavy cream instead of curry and coconut milk, but I choose to go with the skinny version. Both taste delicious, so I will let you decide. I have also used Rosemary essential oils to…
Ukranian Borscht *Beet Soup
Have beets and no idea what to do with them? HA! Here is the answer. What can be more fun than a bright pink soup? Seriously, my co-workers look at me weird every time I take this soup with me to work for lunch. One co-worker even asked why I was drinking Kool-aid out of…
Guilt Free Zucchini Pizzas
Who doesn’t like pizza? That cheesy goodness! Well, with this recipe you won’t have to miss out. My weekends are usually packed with activity and time with the family. Cooking in the kitchen with my kids is my ideal weekend adventure. I want to pass on my love for food….I mean cooking haha. I don’t…
Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Zucchini! totally embracing my love for zucchini with this recipe. Zucchini, stuffed with ground beef, sun dried tomatoes, pesto and cheese, YUM! We visited grandma’s house with the kids last weekend and she sent us home with plenty of zucchini for us to experiment with. We tried this recipe out while we were there and…
Salad Kabobs
Today being Memorial Day we pay our respects to those who have served and sacrificed for our country. Thank you to those who have and the families who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom. As we gather over the weekend to celebrate, it is hard to eat healthy when you are tempted…
Cauliflower & Roasted Garlic Corn Chowder
Brrrrr. Where did the summer weather go? Time to warm up with a bowl of soup! This soup reminds me of the corn chowder my mom used to make for our household growing up. Made a few tweaks to the original recipe, but it is still as good as ever. Sweet kernel corn off the…
Pork Fried Riced Cauliflower
I will admit, I am horrible at making traditional fried rice. Mostly because I don’t have the patience to make proper rice by cooking it and letting it cool before I fry it up. I have found that riced cauliflower removes this annoying step completely and it is a low carb/veggie version of…
Cauliflower Pizza Crust
If you have yet to try cauliflower pizza crusts you have to understand that if not prepared properly it will yield a very mushy mess rather than anything that resembles a pizza! Cauliflower is mostly water! I know because I have dehydrated a whole head of cauliflower and it produced only 1/3…
Riced Cauliflower Lasagna
EAT YOUR VEGETABLES! I know everyone is trying to find new and exciting ways to eat vegetables and I figure, why not get on that bandwagon? My son loves noodles and gobbled this lasagna up without questioning the vegetables. If you have dificulty consuming enough servings of vegetables in a day, give this recipe a…
Simple Frittata
So, fortunately or unfortunately for you, I have begun my quest towards being healthy and discovering a new relationship with healthy food. Since the birth of my second child, I have decided it is time to focus on what I put in my body and adding daily exercise to my routine. So far it has…
Vietnamese Salad Rolls
My good friend Quang and his wife Eileen were so sweet to show me how to make my own salad rolls. We made an afternoon of it, cooking some delicious food. I cannot believe how easy they are to make, even your 5 year old could make these! Also, if you have ever purchased peanut sauce, you…